A week before Ordain Women founder Kate Kelly was threatened with excommunication for "apostasy," her Provo-based parents were in trouble for supporting their daughter’s cause — to open the LDS Church’s all-male priesthood to women.
The Kellys, their daughter said, would have to take down their profiles on the Ordain Women website and disassociate with the movement, their Mormon bishop told them. When they refused, the lay leader withdrew their "recommends" (which allow them to enter the faith’s temples), a serious deprivation for Kelly’s dad, who typically attends the temple once a week.
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